# Is zinc from Chittorgarh covered by CBAM?

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No. Zinc, lead and silver are not CBAM goods. But galvanised steel is, and zinc is not a listed precursor for it, so the coating does not add to the steel's CBAM figure. EU buyers may still ask for zinc's footprint for their Scope 3.

## What is covered

- Iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity.

## Galvanised steel

Coated sheet and galvanised structures are steel goods. Their figure covers steel making and the processing plant, including the galvanising line's fuel, not zinc mining or smelting.

## Zinc footprint

Smelting is power hungry. Keep kWh, captive power fuel and tonnes of zinc per month, so buyers get a sourced number.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel, electricity and freight invoices into a dated, fingerprinted record per site, so each figure you send a buyer traces back to the documents behind it.

- [Hot dip galvanising footprint](https://senseible.earth/answers/hot-dip-galvanizing-carbon-footprint-per-tonne)
- [Coated steel and zinc](https://senseible.earth/answers/vanderbijlpark-coated-steel-zinc-cbam)
- [Zinc die casting](https://senseible.earth/answers/zinc-die-casting-carbon-footprint-per-kg)

Sources: [Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM Regulation), consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [European Commission, CBAM definitive regime](https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/cbam-definitive-regime_en)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.